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  • Repeal of marriage for gays

    • From: grtgrdma
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       I find it interesting that in the article about the defeat, they suggested Pres. Obama should stand against the objectors with a 'moral imperative'. Dictionary says : moral is acting in accordance w/standards & established codes of behavior, especially in sexual conduct. Dictionary, also, says: imperative is a command or plea, having power or authority to command.  It is precisely the 'moral imperative' that I would hope would prevent him from standing firm for gay marriage. NEVER have 2 men or two women ever had the expectation of marriage. NEVER haver 2 men or 2 women ever had the expectation of having children. I have no idea of what their sexual practices consist of, nor do I care - but, do know 'whatever' they cannot produce children.

        I know GOD is not the fashionable subject, any more, BUT He does enter into this. It is a moral issue. The Gay community would have us believe their 'struggle' is equal to the Civil Rights movement. Give me a break - it isn't even close! 

        The Gay community is on the other side of the spectrum. What they participate in is not against the law, but it is under the heading of 'sins'. God does love them, therefore we cannot judge the persons & we cannot turn them out of society. Nor should we want to. But, we cannot rewrite the Bible to excuse what they do & it is clearly addressed, in the Bible -

       God's law for us, His people. If they claim belief in Him, that's all He asks. But, they are shortchanging themselves & Him.   Let them live together for 7 yrs & become common- law. That's been allowed, for yrs. Let them fight for their country; they should have that right. They can work anywhere, eat anywhere. We do not have the right to discriminate against them.  We do not have the right to abuse them, etc. They, as human beings, have the right to respect.

       But, they are asking for more than they have the right to. Jesus walked with them, but, did not become them. Jesus does not come down to our level. Once He comes into your life, you are raised up to a higher level, just because you are in His presence.   2 men /2 women  sharing the same bed is NOT a higher level.  I'm sorry - this is not malicious or hateful. It's just the way it is....  They chose the words - moral imperative!

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  • Puppy Love

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      Ms Scooter and her Boyfriend Clyde.....their just friends, both have been "fixed."

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  • Clyde

    • From: BradleyUSMC
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      This is Clyde the wonder Bulldog, wakes up wonders what going on in his world.

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  • Time to put out the fire and t

    • From: BradleyUSMC
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      Clyde wrote the first description, his editor was not present.  Those of you that know the complete phase will understand Clyde's omission.  You can ask Clyde for the original quot

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  • pardon, it's not me castin

    • From: BradleyUSMC
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      He was voting for all of us, I had just turn 19 yrs old and couldn't vote. I was all of our opinion of Vietnam, guess that's why we didn't make the cover of "Life" magazine.

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  • Alter Boyz/Union Station

    • From: grtgrdma
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       I just got home from Union Station & the production of 'Alter Boyz". It is SOOO EXCELLENT!!! It is 5 boys - 4 being local & 1 of them is only 17 yrs old, stil lgoing to high school.

         This is the 2nd time I have seen it. It is funny. It is very entertaining. The 5 performers are so very talented. They outshine anyone on 'American Idol' &/or 'America has talent'.  You do not hae to go to New York, or anywhere out of the area to see great talent.  We have it ,right here, in KC.  Fox 4 & the other local stations have done us a GREAT disservice, by not letting us know about these productions- they may be small productions, but, they are fantastic.

       This is the 2nd time this particular production has been at Union Station - same cast. The boys names are Jordan Boucher, Adam Branson, Steven Eubanks, Keegan Rice, & Nathan Thomas.  The only "backdrop stuff" are the stage lights. And, there are 3 musicians.

           They have 3 more shows, this weekend - 1 on Saturday & 2 on Sunday. Tickets are only $15.00, there are senior rates available. Well worth the price. You will leave the theatre, with a BIG smile. You get to meet the guys! They are soooo nice.

            We are so lucky to have the Union Station.....   Kansas City is lucky to have such talent...

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  • My Dog Zeke

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  • Healthy "Halloween" Party

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      I am slightly distraught by the head-room mother who is insisting only healthy snacks be made available to my daughters kindergarten class. Back that up, I am livid. This is her first child to attend school so I have tried giving some understanding, but her total control-like attitude, baraging emails have driven me to the brink of civility. The emails insist I disclose what I will bring to the party and my response is always the same... Candy, candy, candy. She goes on further to state this is a healthy party and candy should not be brought. So the question remains, to bring or not to bring candy?

      Note: The other classes are having the "typical" halloween genre, so this is not district policy.

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  • bee extraction 2

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      This family had a huge hive of honey bees in their house and this is Matt on the ladder removing the outer layer of shake siding to expose the hive. Matt is in the suit doing the hard work of cutting  the siding,this was his first time and he did an outstanding job.There ended up being about 20 pounds of capped honey and the hive was about 5 foot in lenght and with sections starting at the outside wall and layered comb back to the inner wall.We lost most of the bees but I did end up finding the queen in the pile of honey comb and placed her and what small amount of bee`s  still on the comb into a new hive.Now hopefully they are in a bee free house.

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  • Deliriousman and the Left - A

    • From: JDog
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      I have to admit that I've been laughing for the past two days over a comment left by Genoiusman, (a.k.a. Deliriousman), on my post, Open and Transparent; ha, ha, ha. Seems my "avitar" has gotten under his skinSurprised . (Thank goodness conversative blogger Rosco and his avitar aren't around any more for Deliriousman to see!!!) So, I thought I'd do a little research, cuttting and pasting to perpetuate my new found laughter, since laughter is good for one's health. Following are numerous comments from Deliriousman, and the posts they are from are underlined for your reference.

      A couple of thoughts: First, does anyone on the Left, or Left of center, really embrace this type of 'off subject' ranting? Second, recently a new conservative blogger (SOTAR) posted a ranting, name calling post which I and others on the right commented back that this was no way to introduce one's self. Third, in all fairness to Deliriousman, I did find two comments that actually made coherent sense and were 'on topic', yea.

      So, let's have a little fun/humor and comment on Deliriousman's comments. Feel free to hammer away at me too for posting this, JUST LEAVE MY AVITAR OUT OF THISLaughing

      ·         JDog, if you want transparancy then take off those damn shades and let us look into your eyes.  You seem very well read for a 6 month old, but then I guess just like listening to spanish tapes in your sleep since birth to get a jump start on the other kids, your parents must be playing Limbaugh, Beck, and Hannity tapes while your cute little bald headed snotty nosed ass goes to bed...sweet dreams. – Deliriousman  -  Open & Transparent; ha, ha, ha.

      • msshowmekc...You should have asked was the woman a democrat or a republican that would have given you a realistic and accurate motive for the story and the comments.  Forget common sense, decency and kindness toward your fellow man, just ask was it a democrat or a republican and all will be made clear to you.  – Deliriousman – racial broadcasting
      • Let us judge all right wing posters by the company they keep...or quote! – Deliriousman – State Media Takeover?
      • I feel so small...and hurt, no one in the sand box wants to play with me. – Deliriousman – State Media Takeover?
      • Does the "J" in JDog stand for...

      1) judgmental

      2) justified

      3) jerk

      4) just as dumb as the day I was born

      5) ________________ you fill in

      ? –           Deliriousman – State Media Takeover?

      ·         …If you quote only one source then your facts, conclusions and certianly your opinions are subject to serious doubt or contempt. Otherwise admit you hate a black President and stand behind your opinion. – Deliriousman -  Truth and the Left

      • Do you like Chinese food...?

      If yes, I wonder what your connection is to the liking of food that is directly related to a country that is communist.

      Are you a Mao enthusiast? – Deliriousman – Obama’s Anita Dunn Hates Fox News

      ·         Does your media bias and inflated reporting include those whom call Fox News home? 

      Or do you argue that only Fox News has a real "unbiased" ability to report all the news?

      I am guessing Beck, Limbaugh, and Hannity are your idea of the best investigative reporters and bring honesty and integrity to the news reporting business. Deliriousman – Is The Sky Really Falling?

      ·         You have a valid point john, we need to send someone from the media to check out the lack of coverage on this most important story.  The lack of its reporting has denied the American people the chance to make informed, intelligent decisions about how and where their government is being corrupted by the Communists.

      So that there will be uncorruptable, unargueable, and unimpeachable reporting, that will cover only the facts, without predjudice;  I have personally sent an email request to both Limbaugh and Beck.  It is recognised throughout the Western world that their personal type of investigate journalism will produce a story that is, of course, without contempt or falsehood. 

      I only hope that these men of integrity in the journalistic community, are willing to take on such an important assignment.  I dont have any recollection of them actually doing stories from outside of their respective studios, but I admit I dont watch all their stories.  I have been seen watching corrupted news networks where the anchors and reporters actually appear out in the world or at events about which they are reporting.

      Anyway, guys I agree with you that this needs some investigation, so let us see how good a job of investigative journalism they perform.  This is their big chance to show the rest of the world, at least every other news channel on television, why they are all corrupt and dishonest, and of course Fox News isnt.

      PLAY BALL... – Deliriousman - Picketing

      • Well reported, well thought out and certianly worthy of consideration, very glad you brought this to our attention.  Without your comprehensive coverage of such important news items I would be unable to keep my pulse on the decay of our American society, and certianly the ongoing dismantling of our way of life. – Deliriousman – Obama’s Newest Racmongering Judge

      Have a great and laughter filed Sunday

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  • Remembering Helen Keller

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      Taken from Wikipedia; copied here in honor of her statue's unveiling.

      Early childhood and illness

      Keller with Anne Sullivan vacationing at Cape Cod in July 1888

      Helen Adams Keller was born at an estate called Ivy Green[3] in Tuscumbia, Alabama, on June 27, 1880, to Captain Arthur H. Keller, a former officer of the Confederate Army, and Kate Adams Keller, a cousin of Robert E. Lee and daughter of Charles W. Adams, a former Confederate general.[4] The Keller family originates from Switzerland.[5] Helen Keller was not born blind and deaf; it was not until she was nineteen months old that she contracted an illness described by doctors as "an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain," which could possibly have been scarlet fever or meningitis. The illness did not last for a particularly long time, but it left her deaf and blind. At that time, she was able to communicate somewhat with Martha Washington,[6] the six-year-old daughter of the family cook, who understood her signs; by the age of seven, she had over sixty home signs to communicate with her family. According to Soviet blind-deaf psychologist A. Meshcheryakov, Martha's friendship and teaching was crucial for Helen's later developments.

      In 1886, her mother, inspired by an account in Charles Dickens' American Notes of the successful education of another deaf and blind child, Laura Bridgman, dispatched young Helen, accompanied by her father, to seek out Dr. J. Julian Chisolm, an eye, ear, nose, and throat specialist in Baltimore, for advice.[7] He subsequently put them in touch with Alexander Graham Bell, who was working with deaf children at the time. Bell advised the couple to contact the Perkins Institute for the Blind, the school where Bridgman had been educated, which was then located in South Boston. Michael Anaganos, the school's director, asked former student Anne Sullivan, herself visually impaired and then only 20 years old, to become Keller's instructor. It was the beginning of a 49-year-long relationship, eventually evolving into governess and then eventual companion.

      Anne Sullivan arrived at Keller's house in March 1887, and immediately began to teach Helen to communicate by spelling words into her hand, beginning with d-o-l-l for the doll that she had brought Keller as a present. Keller's big breakthrough in communication came the next month, when she realized that the motions her teacher was making on the palm of her hand, while running cool water over her other hand, symbolized the idea of "water"; she then nearly exhausted Sullivan demanding the names of all the other familiar objects in her world.

      Formal education

      Keller and Sullivan in 1898

      Starting in May, 1888, Keller attended the Perkins Institute for the Blind. In 1894, Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan moved to New York to attend the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf and Horace Mann School for the Deaf. In 1896, they returned to Massachusetts and Keller entered The Cambridge School for Young Ladies before gaining admittance, in 1900, to Radcliffe College. Her admirer, Mark Twain, had introduced her to Standard Oil magnate Henry Huttleston Rogers, who, with his wife, paid for her education. In 1904, at the age of 24, Keller graduated from Radcliffe, becoming the first deaf blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.

      Companions

      Anne Sullivan stayed as a companion to Helen Keller long after she taught her. Anne married John Macy in 1905, and her health started failing around 1914. Polly Thompson was hired to keep house. She was a young woman from Scotland who didn't have experience with deaf or blind people. She progressed to working as a secretary as well, and eventually became a constant companion to Keller.[8]

      Keller moved to Forest Hills, Queens together with Anne and John, and used the house as a base for her efforts on behalf of American Foundation for the Blind.[9] Their home there was robbed multiple times, and had been robbed four times by June 1921.[10]

      After Anne died in 1936, Keller and Thompson moved to Connecticut. They traveled worldwide and raised funding for the blind. Thompson had a stroke in 1957 from which she never fully recovered, and died in 1960.[1]

      Winnie Corbally, a nurse who was originally brought in to care for Polly Thompson in 1957, stayed on after Thompson's death and was Keller's companion for the rest of her life.[1]

      Political activities

      Keller went on to become a world-famous speaker and author. She is remembered as an advocate for people with disabilities amid numerous other causes. She was a suffragette, a pacifist, an opponent of Woodrow Wilson, a radical Socialist, and a birth control supporter. In 1915, Helen Keller and George Kessler founded the Helen Keller International (HKI) organization. This organization is devoted to research in vision, health and nutrition. In 1920, she helped to found the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Keller and Sullivan traveled to over 39 countries, making several trips to Japan and becoming a favorite of the Japanese people. Keller met every US President from Grover Cleveland to Lyndon B. Johnson and was friends with many famous figures, including Alexander Graham Bell, Charlie Chaplin, and Mark Twain.

      Helen Keller sitting holding a magnolia flower, circa 1920

      Keller was a member of the Socialist Party and actively campaigned and wrote in support of the working classes from 1909 to 1921. She supported Socialist Party candidate Eugene V. Debs in each of his campaigns for the presidency.

      Keller and her friend Mark Twain were both considered radicals at the beginning of the 20th century, and as a consequence, their political views have been forgotten or glossed over in popular perception.[11] Newspaper columnists who had praised her courage and intelligence before she expressed her socialist views now called attention to her disabilities. The editor of the Brooklyn Eagle wrote that her "mistakes sprung out of the manifest limitations of her development." Keller responded to that editor, referring to having met him before he knew of her political views:

      At that time the compliments he paid me were so generous that I blush to remember them. But now that I have come out for socialism he reminds me and the public that I am blind and deaf and especially liable to error. I must have shrunk in intelligence during the years since I met him...Oh, ridiculous Brooklyn Eagle! Socially blind and deaf, it defends an intolerable system, a system that is the cause of much of the physical blindness and deafness which we are trying to prevent.[12]

      Keller joined the Industrial Workers of the World (known as the IWW or the Wobblies) in 1912,[11] saying that parliamentary socialism was "sinking in the political bog." She wrote for the IWW between 1916 and 1918. In Why I Became an IWW,[13] Keller explained that her motivation for activism came in part from her concern about blindness and other disabilities:

      I was appointed on a commission to investigate the conditions of the blind. For the first time I, who had thought blindness a misfortune beyond human control, found that too much of it was traceable to wrong industrial conditions, often caused by the selfishness and greed of employers. And the social evil contributed its share. I found that poverty drove women to a life of shame that ended in blindness.

      The last sentence refers to prostitution and syphilis, the latter a leading cause of blindness.

      Writings

      One of Keller's earliest pieces of writing, at the age of eleven, was The Frost King (1891). There were allegations that this story had been plagiarized from The Frost Fairies by Margaret Canby. An investigation into the matter revealed that Keller may have experienced a case of cryptomnesia, which was that she had Canby's story read to her but forgot about it, while the memory remained in her subconscious.[1]

      At the age of 22, Keller published her autobiography, The Story of My Life (1903), with help from Sullivan and Sullivan's husband, John Macy. It includes words that Keller wrote and the story of her life up to age 21, and was written during her time in college.

      Keller wrote The World I Live In in 1908 giving readers an insight into how she felt about the world.[14] Out of the Dark, a series of essays on Socialism, was published in 1913.

      Her spiritual autobiography, My Religion, was published in 1927 and re-issued as Light in my Darkness. It advocates the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg, the controversial mystic who gives a spiritual interpretation of the Last Judgment and second coming of Jesus Christ, and the movement named after him, Swedenborgianism.

      Keller wrote a total of 12 published books and several articles.

      Akita dog

      When Keller visited Akita Prefecture in Japan in July 1937, she inquired about Hachikō, the famed Akita dog that had died in 1935. She told a Japanese person that she would like to have an Akita dog; one was given to her within a month, with the name of Kamikaze-go. When he died of canine distemper, his older brother, Kenzan-go, was presented to her as an official gift from the Japanese government in July 1938. Keller is credited with having introduced the Akita to the United States through these two dogs.

      By 1939 a breed standard had been established and dog shows had been held, but such activities stopped after World War II began. Keller wrote in the Akita Journal:

      If ever there was an angel in fur, it was Kamikaze. I know I shall never feel quite the same tenderness for any other pet. The Akita dog has all the qualities that appeal to me — he is gentle, companionable and trusty.[15][16]

      Later life

      Keller suffered a series of strokes in 1961 and spent the last years of her life at her home.[1]

      On September 14, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson awarded Helen Keller the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of the United States' highest two civilian honors.[17] In 1965 she was elected to the National Women's Hall of Fame at the New York World's Fair.[1]

      Keller devoted much of her later life to raising funds for the American Foundation for the Blind. She died in her sleep on June 1, 1968 at her home, Arcan Ridge, located in Westport, Connecticut. A service was held in her honor at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. and her ashes were placed there next to her constant companions, Anne Sullivan and Polly Thompson.

      Portrayals of Helen Keller

      Keller's life has been interpreted many times. She appeared in a silent film, Deliverance (1919), which told her story in a melodramatic, allegorical style.[18]

      She was also the subject of the documentaries Helen Keller in Her Story, narrated by Katharine Cornell, and The Story of Helen Keller, part of the Famous Americans series produced by Hearst Entertainment.

      Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke (right) in the Broadway play The Miracle Worker (play) (1959-1961)

      The Miracle Worker is a cycle of dramatic works ultimately derived from her autobiography, The Story of My Life. The various dramas each describe the relationship between Keller and Sullivan, depicting how the teacher led her from a state of almost feral wildness into education, activism, and intellectual celebrity. The common title of the cycle echoes Mark Twain's description of Sullivan as a "miracle worker." Its first realization was the 1957 Playhouse 90 teleplay of that title by William Gibson. He adapted it for a Broadway production in 1959 and an Oscar-winning feature film in 1962, starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke. It was remade for television in 1979 and 2000.

      In 1984, Helen Keller's life story was made into a TV movie called The Miracle Continues.[19] This film that entailed the semi-sequel to The Miracle Worker recounts her college years and her early adult life. None of the early movies hint at the social activism that would become the hallmark of Keller's later life, although The Walt Disney Company version produced in 2000 states in the credits that she became an activist for social equality.

      The Bollywood movie Black (2005) was largely based on Keller's story, from her childhood to her graduation. A documentary called Shining Soul: Helen Keller's Spiritual Life and Legacy was produced by the Swedenborg Foundation in the same year. The film focuses on the role played by Emanuel Swedenborg's spiritual theology in her life and how it inspired Keller's triumph over her triple disabilities of blindness, deafness and a severe speech impediment.

      On March 6, 2008, the New England Historic Genealogical Society announced that a staff member had discovered a rare 1888 photograph showing Helen and Anne, which, although previously published, had escaped widespread attention.[20] Depicting Helen holding one of her many dolls, it is believed to be the earliest surviving photograph of Anne.[21]

      Posthumous honors

      Helen Keller as depicted on the Alabama state quarter

      In 1999, Keller was listed in Gallup's Most Widely Admired People of the 20th Century.

      In 2003, Alabama honored its native daughter on its state quarter.[22]

      The Helen Keller Hospital in Sheffield, Alabama is dedicated to her.[23]

      There are streets named after Helen Keller in Getafe, Spain and Lod, Israel. [24]

      On October 7th, 2009, a statue of Helen Keller as a seven year old child standing at a water pump was unveiled at the United States Capitol building. The statue is one of the State of Alabama's contribution to the Capitol's statuary hall. The statue represents the seminal moment in Helen Keller's life when she understood her first word: W-A-T-E-R, as signed into her hand by teacher Anne Sullivan. This statue is the first one of a handicapped person and the first one of a child displayed at the U.S. Capitol.

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  • THE NEW BEE SUIT

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      THE NEW BEE SUITANTI STING BEE SUIT

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  • HUH???

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      Believe it or not, you can read it!
      I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.

      The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the 
      ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the first and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it wouthit a porbelm. This 
      is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?  

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  • veppo

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      I am going to go here once I reach certain goals...isn't it beautiful!

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      Chopper with a big grin
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